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Civil War American National Cemeteries
The act incorporating the "Soldiers' National Cemetery, " at Gettysburg, Pa., required the classification, by lot, of the commissioners of the several States, incorporated into three classes, whose terms of office respectively should be one, two, and three years. Michigan drew the longest term, which expires on the 1st day of January, A. D. 1867. I have, therefore, the honor herewith of submitting my terminating report:
The work in progress, indicated in my last report has been completed.
The seventeen acres dedicated to the cemetery have been inclosed upon the north, west, and south sides by a substantial granite wall, two feet thick at its base, and tapering outwardly to 19 inches at the top, with an average height of 4 feet 4 inches, which, with a surmounting coping of dressed granite 8 inches in thickness by 23 in width, pointed, cemented, and clamped together by iron clamps, gives an extreme height of 5 feet.
National Cemeteries of the Civil War
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